Normal Like Me

Wednesday, August 09, 2017

Normal Like Me: Chapter 6

“I don’t want to be ‘back to normal’! ” Tzadok insisted. “I have a mission. I was given a gift! I won’t destroy ...

Normal Like Me

Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Normal Like Me: Chapter 5

White people, she’d heard, almost never painted their faces. That was so stupid. Wasn’t it bad enough that they were so ...

Normal Like Me

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Normal Like Me: Chapter 4

He — the child always a bit behind, a bit slow; the reject, the anxiety-ridden young man who was never good enough ...

Normal Like Me

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Normal Like Me: Chapter 3

“They’re jealous, because deep in their hearts they know that we’re dressed the way Jewish women should be dressed,” I ...

Normal Like Me

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Normal Like Me: Chapter 2

Rabbanit Chana has a mesmerizing voice. I used to love hearing her talk. There’s a word for that, for people who kno ...

Normal Like Me

Wednesday, July 05, 2017

Normal Like Me: Chapter 1

“Shawl ladies aren’t an ‘investigative report,’ ” she said to her husband Ari. “They’re Sarah, and Rivka, and Chaya Bracha ...

Magazine Feature

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

No Compromises

Having lived through destruction and rebuilding, poverty and plenty, war and peace, Reb Aryeh Alter — a scion of Gerrer ...